..To develop a discrete event simulation of emergency department (ED) patient flow for the purpose of forecasting near-future operating conditions and to validate the forecasts with several measures of ED crowding...

..There were no significant differences between subspecialties and by advancing years of training among housestaff. Respondents agreed that the integrated clinical decision support enhanced their medical training...

..The system was developed in conjunction with the pediatric ED multidisciplinary care team. The computerized system is entirely automatic and a prospective evaluation of the diagnostic component is ongoing...

Exploring the frontier of electronic health record surveillance: the case of postoperative complications

..The aim of this study was to build electronic algorithms using a combination of structured data and natural language processing (NLP) of text notes for potential safety surveillance of 9 postoperative complications...

..Information technology (IT) solutions are beginning to find their place in the emergency department (ED) and it is time to begin understanding how these systems are effecting physician behavior, communication and workload...

..Few studies demonstrated evidence of computerized applications improving clinical outcomes. Further research is needed to prospectively evaluate the impact of using biomedical informatics to improve care of asthmatic patients...

..Ewig et al. proposed a new definition of severe community-acquired pneumonia in 1999, which was adopted by the American Thoracic Society in 2001. We evaluated this definition in an independent population of emergency department patients...

The measurement of daily surge and its relevance to disaster preparedness

..A better understanding of daily ED surge capacity and influencing factors will improve our ability to simulate the potential impact that different types of catastrophic events may have on the surge capacity of hospital EDs nationwide...

Computer-based decision support for critical and emergency care

Tze Yun LeongJ Biomed Inform 41:409-12. 2008

Performance of an algorithm for assessing smallpox risk among patients with rashes that may be confused with smallpox